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THE BEARFACTS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28th Show someone Joseph Mallord William Turner Celebrate love this month! (1775–1851), nineteenth-century how much you care MEN’S HEALTH Britain’s greatest land- and by giving them a LUNCHEON seascape artist, depicted ports gif to remember! Dr. Ashutosh Tewari will throughout his career, both Host your engagement discuss prostate cancer and in monumental oil paintings party, wedding, rehearsal men’s health: what every man and in watercolors. This major (and woman) needs to know exhibition brings together some dinner, or brunch at Te thirty-five works from the 1810s Cornell Club! about advances in prostate cancer screening, diagnosis and through the late 1830s in oil, treatment. watercolor, and graphite that Ashutosh (Ash) K. Tewari, capture contemporary cities in MBBS, MCh, Chairman, Milton England, France, and Germany, and Carroll Petrie Department as well as imagined scenes set in Contact the Meetings and Events Department at of Urology, Mount Sinai the ancient world. [email protected] or 212.692.1376 Health System and Professor, 4:00pm tour. $52 per person. Urology at the Icahn School of Advance reservations required by Medicine at Mount Sinai is a Friday, February 24th, at which time THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Schwarz will discuss how th world-renowned urologist and they are considered final sale. 16 and THURSDAY, to choose the right college th prostate cancer specialist. You MARCH 16 and how to get the right can view Dr. Tewari’s full bio on college to choose you. He TUESDAY, MARCH 7th THE BREAKFAST our website. will speak about preparation for CLUB the college, the application 12:00noon-1:30pm. $25 for THE CORNELL This breakfast event is a process and how students Members includes lunch and lecture. CLUB WELCOMES meaningful networking can make the make the Advance reservations required by th opportunity. The dynamic most of high school, and, Friday, February 24 , at which time KATE SNOW ’91: discussions have facilitated especially the college they are considered final sale. JOURNALISM the development of strong admissions process itself. He has business relationships among participated in the admissions TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28th IN THE AGE OF the attendees. Discussions process a number of years, range from business challenges, including recently. THE FRICK SOCIAL MEDIA A single tweet can provoke news of the day, career advice, Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic COLLECTION headlines across the world. the economy, and more. The J. Whiton Professor of English Traditional cable networks breakfast is led by Leslie Nydick Literature and Stephen H. TOUR: JMW and print publications alike ’85, a Cornell Club Member and Weiss Presidential Fellow at TURNER have gradually adapted their a professional mediator who Cornell University, where he coverage to suit the new has experience facilitating and has taught since 1968. He is EXHIBITION moderating group discussions. a renowned teacher, scholar, 7:45am; $20 per person for and public intellectual and Members, $30 for non-Members. appears frequently in the media. News from the Membership Department Advance reservations required. 6:00-6:30pm reception; 6:30pm Spouse/Domestic Partner Privileges lecture, gratis. Copies of How to All Members have access to Club services and reciprocal clubs! st Succeed in College and Beyond: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 A member may add his/her spouse/domestic partner on the The Art of Learning will be account, allowing unlimited signing and use of Club facilities available for purchase at the event. THE CORNELL for $160 annually. Advance reservations required by CLUB WELCOMES Friday, February 17th. Attendees are Plan Ahead PROFESSOR invited to dine at The Club with Commencement season is only a few months away. Professor Schwarz following the Gift a graduate with a Club Membership! DANIEL SCHWARZ: lecture. The cost is $40 per person, 2017 graduates (of Cornell and our affiliate schools) HOW TO SUCCEED inclusive of tax, gratuity and one can join The Club for only $150 (payable upon the start glass of wine with dinner. Dinner of Membership) and pay no dues until June 30, 2018! IN COLLEGE reservations are required 48 hours For more information, please contact the Membership Department In an event for parents and prior to the program. at [email protected] high school students, Professor

THE CORNELL CLUB-NEW YORK, 6 EAST 44TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10017, 212.986.0300, WWW.CORNELLCLUBNYC.COM EVENT reality of a 24-hour news basketball games, and has been Roosevelt. We will also discuss RESERVATIONS cycle where the political invited to the Oval Office to how the College’s history plays conversation starts on . perform for the President of the out today. But, as any working journalist United States. Dean Alan Mathios is the Contact the Program can tell you, we’ve only reached 6:30pm, cash bar reception; 7:00pm Rebecca Q. and James C. Department at the tip of the iceberg; new lecture, gratis. Advance reservations Morgan Dean College of 212.692.1381 or K.Alman platforms emerge every day, required by Monday, March 6th. Human Ecology. He received @cornellclubnyc.com. creating a media environment his bachelor’s in economics and in flux. No one knows this psychology from the University th better than Kate Snow ’91. A SATURDAY, MARCH 11 of Buffalo followed by a PhD in OPERA: ROMÉO ET seasoned professional with FAMILY DAY Economics from the University five presidential elections of Pennsylvania. He then spent JULIETTE and several White House It’s time to get out of the house 6 years with the FTC where he Join us for a day at the opera! administrations under her belt, and enjoy a Family Fun Day! served as a staff economist in Seasoned opera-goers and Snow has worked as a journalist Join parents and children from the Division of Economic Policy first-timers alike will delight in in an era of rapid change. She the Inter-Club Community for a Analysis. Charles Gounod’s “Roméo et anchors the daily “MSNBC Live festive afternoon at The Cornell Associate Dean, Rachel Juliette” at The Metropolitan with Kate Snow,” and works Club! Dunifon is a Professor in the Opera! Your experience as an Emmy-winning National There will be fun sports themed Department of Policy Analysis features: Correspondent for NBC News crafts for the little ones, games, and Management. She is and anchor of “NBC Nightly t A pre-performance discussion a Caricaturist, and a Magic Show also the Associate Dean for News” Sunday editions. Her on how Shakespeare’s works for all ages. Children will be Research and Outreach for the reporting appears across all have been adapted and what treated to a kid friendly buffet College of Human Ecology. She platforms of NBC News and goes into producing an opera including tailgate favorites, while received her PhD in Human MSNBC, and she serves as a with Bruce Levitt, Professor the adults will enjoy a buffet Development and Social Policy fill-in anchor for Nightly News of Performing and Media Arts featuring a Mimosa and Bloody from Northwestern University and TODAY. Mary bar. in the College of Arts and in 1999. Sciences. Snow is a graduate of Cornell 12:00noon-2:00pm. $25 for adults 6:00-6:30pm cash bar reception; t University and holds a Master’s Full buffet brunch and $15 for kids, plus tax and service. 6:30pm lecture, gratis. Advance degree in international affairs t One way transportation to Advance registration required by reservations required. Members from ’s the MET Wednesday, March 8th, at which and guests are invited to dine at School of Foreign Service. t Dress Circle Prime seating time reservations are considered The Club with Dean Mathios and $185.00 per person. 10:30- 6:00-6:30pm reception; 6:30pm final sale. Associate Dean Dunifon following 12:00pm brunch at The Club and lecture, gratis. Advance reservations the lecture. The cost is $40 per opera discussion with Professor required. Members and guests are MONDAY, MARCH 13th person, inclusive of tax, gratuity and Levitt. 12:15pm departure to the invited to dine at The Club with one glass of wine with dinner. Dinner MET, 1:00pm show time. Tickets Ms. Snow following the lecture. The COLLEGE OF reservations are required 48 hours are considered final sale upon cost is $40 per person, inclusive of prior to the program. tax, gratuity and one glass of wine HUMAN ECOLOGY: purchase. with dinner. Dinner reservations IT ALL STARTED th are required 48 hours prior to the WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 program. WITH MARTHA, ST. PATRICK’S FLORA, AND Save the Date WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8th CATHEDRAL TOUR ELEANOR The Cathedral of St. Patrick is At The Princeton Club CHRIS ULLMAN: Throughout its history, the a decorated Neo-Gothic-style MONDAY, th PERFORMANCE College of Human Ecology Roman Catholic cathedral FEBRUARY 27 has been at the forefront of church in the United States and SURVIVING LAW BY THE MOST fostering women’s leadership. a prominent landmark of New The College’s founders, York City. The cornerstone of St. SCHOOL: FROM FAMOUS Flora Rose and Martha Van Patrick’s Cathedral was laid in ADMISSION WHISTLER IN THE Rensselaer, were Cornell’s first 1858 and her doors swept open full-time female professors. in 1879. APPLICATIONS TO WORLD As the College of Home 4:00pm tour. $7 per person. PASSING THE BAR Economics, it provided women Chris Ullman is the most Advance reservations required by famous whistler in the world. with what was, at the time, one Monday, March 13, at which time MONDAY, MARCH 6th He is a four-time national of the few socially acceptable they are considered final sale. and international whistling means of getting a higher ROWING BLAZERS: champion. He’s appeared on education. Through this talk we th THE PATRIARCH OF The Tonight Show, The Today will learn about the College’s SATURDAY, MARCH 18 Show, CBS This Morning, CNN, rich history, including its strong CORNELL AT THE ATHLETIC FASHION National Anthem at NBA connection with Eleanor

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